Twins: A cloning experience

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2739-2752

  Prainsack, Barbara ^a   Spector, Tim D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genetic identity; Human reproductive cloning; Identical twins; UK

Indexed keywords

CLONE; GENE; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; TWINNING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CLONING; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERVIEW; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCTION;

CLONING, ORGANISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LONDON; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33749254777     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.06.024     Document Type: Article

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